Track and rail fastening



Sept. 23, 1941. r w T s 2,257,020

TRACK AND RAIL FASTENING Filed June 14, 1940 4 m/mwroe lV/ZWESS: 7-7;

I Patented Sept. 23, 1941 rear -orrfl -c a TRACK AND BAIL FASTENING John W. Mathias, Upper Darby, Pa., assignor of one-half to John L. Martin, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application June 14, 1940, Serial No. 340,439

3 Claims.

The present invention is a continuation in part of my application Serial No. 227,898 filed September 1, 1938, issued as Patent No. 2,211,021, Aug. 13, 1940'.

Objects of the present invention are: to provide an adequate open track fastening adapted to meet the requirements of the advances made in new equipment and which permits of the continuous welding of rail joints and avoids creepage in an open track construction; to provide a fastening of the kind referred to useful in track subway and elevated track construction at portions thereof where the speed is moderate, for example in yards and the like; and to hold the rails to gage and to avoid the use of bolts or the like between the fastening and the rail.

Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description at the end of which the invention will be claimed.

Generally stated, the invention comprises: a rectangular metal plate having intermediate of its ends an offset and having on one side of the offset a fiat perforated portion and having on the other side of the offset an inclined portion terminating in a curved outwardly extending lip, and the plate at one margin and near the offset provided with a foot ranging crosswise of the plate and having a loop extending beyond the lip and terminating in the inclined bill of a hook and including two confronting aligned knees spaced from the plane of the plate; the plate adapted to be seated on and secured to the top surface of a tie, the offset and the knee receiving a rail flange or foot and the inclined portion and lip conforming to the shape of the foot and a portion of the web of a rail.

The invention also comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawing forming part hereof and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating fastenings of the invention in application to a rail and to a tie, and

Figure 2 is a similar view with the tie and rail omitted.

Inasmuch as the anchor clips are used in pairs of which each is a duplicate of the other, a d scription will now be given of one of the clips. There is a generally rectangular metal plate having intermediate of its ends an offset I. The integral portion 2' of the clip on one side of the offset is flat and perforated as at 3. The integral portion of the clip on the other side of the offset outwardly extending lip 5. The parts 4 and 5 conform to the contour of the foot and web of the rail 0:. The plate at one margin and near the offset portion I is provided with a foot 6 ranging crosswise of the plate and'having a loop 1 extending beyond the lip 5 and terminating in the inclined hill 8 of a hook. The loop includes confronting knees 9 and the knee at the under side of the offset l and indicated at I0 and spaced from the top plane of the plate. The described structure may be struck from a flat sheet of metal and the offset I and foot 6 and loop I may be swaged or struck from it.

In use, the described clips or clip anchors are used in pairs and they are seated on the top surface of a tie b and they are disposed on the respective sides of the rail a. The slip or portions 4 and 5, which are curved in consonance with the upper surface of the rail base, are arranged in contact with the latter. The base of the rail is arranged between the knee I0 and the offset I at one side of the rail, and at the other side of the rail the hook 9 engages the other side of the rail base. II indicatescrew-spikes or the like and they serve to fasten the flat portions 2 of the structure to the tie b. Obviously the knee loops serve to square the tie b with the rail a, and the other described parts of the structure hold the rail and the tie securely in proper relative position and this they do without the use of bolts or like fastenings between them.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that modifications may be made in details of con struction and in matters of mere form without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

'1. As a track and rail fastening, a one-piece combined clip and anchor consisting of: a generally rectangular metal plate having intermediate of its ends an offset and having on one side of the offset a flat perforated portion for the reception of a tie spike or screw and having on the other side of the offset an inclined portion ter-' minating in a curved outwardly extending lip adapted to engage a rail flange and foot, and the plate at one margin and near the offset provided with a foot ranging crosswise of the plate and having an immovable loop extending beyond the lip and terminating in the inclined bill of a hook and including two confronting aligned knees spaced from the plane of the top of the plate.

2. In means for fastening a railway rail to a tie, a pair of oppositely disposed duplicate combined clips and anchors seated on the top surface of a single tie and disposed at the respective sides of a rail and each having a lip curved in consonance with the upper surface of the rail base and Web and each having an immovable knee loop extension provided with a hook engaging over one edge of the rail base, the knee of the loop and the lip engaging the top and bottom surfaces and the other side edge of the rail base, and means for securing the combined clips and anchors to the top of the tie.

3. As a track and rail fastening a one piece combined clip and anchor consisting of a generally rectangular metal plate having on one side of its intermediate part a fiat perforated portion and having on the other side of its intermediate part an inclined portion constructed to engage a rail web and foot flange, and the plate at one margin near the intermediate part provided with a foot ranging crosswise of the plate and having an immovable extension terminating in an upright portion engaging over one edge of the rail 10 base.

JOHN W. MATHIAS. 

